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McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

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.” This is akin to our pointing out over the past years that every company is a health company. This graphic illustrates that about one-half of companies listed on the S&P have a direct impact on people’s health: think pharma, life sciences, medical technology, health insurance, food, and transportation.

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

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And as the RWJF/NPR/Harvard Chan study shows, these social determinants risks travel in groups and double-down on those health risks for people who rent, people of color, those without access to healthy food, and folks who earn lower incomes. That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 1 of 5

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From connectivity to home care, entertainment and food — and for the first time, two pharma companies named in a study largely focused on consumer goods and services — people adapted their homes for health and wellness across all domains: physical, mental and emotional, financial, and social.

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Heart-Love – Omron’s Holy Grail of Blood Pressure Tracking on the Wrist

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This has prevented them from being embraced and adopted for patients’ use by the medical profession, which has seen a plethora of patients wear activity trackers generating data that has been questioned in peer-reviewed studies. Omron seeks to jump that hurdle through FDA clearance.

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Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

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My friend and colleague Susannah Fox coined the term peer-to-peer healthcare as she observed the phenomenon while leading studies at the Pew Research Group into how patients were using the Internet for self-care. Getting support.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

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Compared with the ten other countries studied, the Commonwealth Fund placed the U.S. in second position just behind New Zealand which topped the list for care process. Otherwise, America ranked dead last in the four other categories, placing it in overall last place for health system performance among other wealthy countries.